Comments on: Sometimes… http://especiallyheather.com/2007/08/18/sometimes/ Its not about the hair... Wed, 16 May 2012 19:46:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Betty http://especiallyheather.com/2007/08/18/sometimes/comment-page-1/#comment-17154 Betty Mon, 20 Aug 2007 22:23:51 +0000 http://www.especiallyheather.com/2007/08/18/sometimes/#comment-17154 Heather, you are a beautiful, beautiful lady... inside and out!!! Your poet is a great one and everyone can identify with it in some manner! Prayers continue...expect a MIRACLE!!! Heather, you are a beautiful, beautiful lady… inside and out!!!

Your poet is a great one and everyone can identify with it in some manner!

Prayers continue…expect a MIRACLE!!!

]]> By: Amy Grant http://especiallyheather.com/2007/08/18/sometimes/comment-page-1/#comment-17150 Amy Grant Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:33:40 +0000 http://www.especiallyheather.com/2007/08/18/sometimes/#comment-17150 Girl... you are amazing! As long as you follow Jesus it is literally impossible that He did now walk before you and prepare the way.... He is with you. You will prevail. You are strong. You are a shining example of God's light. ...love the shirt! Girl… you are amazing!

As long as you follow Jesus it is literally impossible that He did now walk before you and prepare the way….

He is with you. You will prevail. You are strong. You are a shining example of God’s light.

…love the shirt!

]]> By: Amber http://especiallyheather.com/2007/08/18/sometimes/comment-page-1/#comment-17116 Amber Mon, 20 Aug 2007 04:02:59 +0000 http://www.especiallyheather.com/2007/08/18/sometimes/#comment-17116 How beautiful and strong you are! I can tell this thing we call cancer will not get the best of you. Stay strong, oh loved one. Amber How beautiful and strong you are! I can tell this thing we call cancer will not get the best of you. Stay strong, oh loved one.

Amber

]]> By: faintnot http://especiallyheather.com/2007/08/18/sometimes/comment-page-1/#comment-17115 faintnot Mon, 20 Aug 2007 03:53:27 +0000 http://www.especiallyheather.com/2007/08/18/sometimes/#comment-17115 Yes, yes, yes...When those 'sometimes' times come and we silence all that noise inside, that's when we can finally hear Him ever so clearly...thank you, Heather, for being a friend of God. May He speak so clearly to you now. Love you Linda Yes, yes, yes…When those ‘sometimes’ times come and we silence all that noise inside, that’s when we can finally hear Him ever so clearly…thank you, Heather, for being a friend of God. May He speak so clearly to you now.
Love you
Linda

]]> By: Bobbie http://especiallyheather.com/2007/08/18/sometimes/comment-page-1/#comment-17113 Bobbie Mon, 20 Aug 2007 03:27:25 +0000 http://www.especiallyheather.com/2007/08/18/sometimes/#comment-17113 Sometimes God has a plan We do not Understand On a path we walk that is unfamiliar Following His Voice becuase we Love HIm Only to discover The Center of His will Is also the Center of is heart And EVERYTIME We discover we were never alone. Because of Jesus, Bobbie Sometimes God has a plan
We do not Understand
On a path we walk
that is unfamiliar
Following His Voice
becuase we Love HIm
Only to discover
The Center of His will
Is also the Center of is heart
And EVERYTIME
We discover we were never alone.

Because of Jesus, Bobbie

]]> By: Laurie http://especiallyheather.com/2007/08/18/sometimes/comment-page-1/#comment-17109 Laurie Sun, 19 Aug 2007 23:55:28 +0000 http://www.especiallyheather.com/2007/08/18/sometimes/#comment-17109 Hi Heather, I want to let you know you are in my prayers for tomorrow as you start back up on chemo. Praying for it to be a completely manageable condition for you this time around. Praying you will not be anxious for anything and sleep like a baby tonight. And a little p.s. to the constipation formula. I am going to botch this spelling big time but I think you can sound it out. Acedopholis. Yep, computer red lined it. However, it is so healthy for the colon to be replenished with the good bacterias to balance the effects of the chemo and constipation aids that strip everything out. Not a pretty topic but an important one. It helped me so much. ~*~Hugs, Love and Prayers to you tonight from me in Ca.~*~Laurel Hi Heather, I want to let you know you are in my prayers for tomorrow as you start back up on chemo. Praying for it to be a completely manageable
condition for you this time around. Praying you will not be anxious for anything and sleep like a baby tonight. And a little p.s. to the constipation formula. I am going to botch this spelling big time but I think you can sound it out. Acedopholis. Yep, computer red lined it. However, it is so healthy for the colon to be replenished with the good bacterias to balance the effects of the chemo and constipation aids that strip everything out. Not a pretty topic but an important one. It helped me so much.
~*~Hugs, Love and Prayers to you tonight from me in Ca.~*~Laurel

]]> By: melody is slurping life http://especiallyheather.com/2007/08/18/sometimes/comment-page-1/#comment-17106 melody is slurping life Sun, 19 Aug 2007 22:44:52 +0000 http://www.especiallyheather.com/2007/08/18/sometimes/#comment-17106 Your words are beautiful and not just for you. Thank you. Hugs and prayers. Your words are beautiful and not just for you. Thank you.

Hugs and prayers.

]]> By: Terry http://especiallyheather.com/2007/08/18/sometimes/comment-page-1/#comment-17105 Terry Sun, 19 Aug 2007 22:19:17 +0000 http://www.especiallyheather.com/2007/08/18/sometimes/#comment-17105 Dear Heather ..I just thought you would like to know how you are such an encouragement to others... Comments -about Heather's "Sometimes Poem" from Pilgrim Pals blog site passing-thru said... There's truth in those words There is alot of "sometimes" in our lives Thanks Terry for copying and posting August 19, 2007 4:50 PM Terry said... Isn't it just incredible Passing-thru? It looks like sweet Heather wrote those words just for me! How could she have known what deep waters us Goldens were passing through in the last few weeks? Or how could she have known the trials that Little Missionary, Julie had been facing or Donna or just any of the other Pilgrim Pals, including the pilgrim himself? Just incredible!..from Terry This poem is from the Lord through Heather to us all!! Thanks Heather!! Even in your own sickness, you are our encourager!...Love Terry Now Passing-thru...I will copy and paste this comment to Heather herself! August 19, 2007 6:12 PM Dear Heather ..I just thought you would like to know how you are such an encouragement to others…

Comments -about Heather’s “Sometimes Poem” from Pilgrim Pals blog site

passing-thru said…
There’s truth in those words

There is alot of “sometimes” in our lives

Thanks Terry for copying and posting

August 19, 2007 4:50 PM

Terry said…
Isn’t it just incredible Passing-thru?
It looks like sweet Heather wrote those words just for me!
How could she have known what deep waters us Goldens were passing through in the last few weeks?
Or how could she have known the trials that Little Missionary, Julie had been facing or Donna or just any of the other Pilgrim Pals, including the pilgrim himself?
Just incredible!..from Terry

This poem is from the Lord through Heather to us all!!
Thanks Heather!!
Even in your own sickness, you are our encourager!…Love Terry

Now Passing-thru…I will copy and paste this comment to Heather herself!

August 19, 2007 6:12 PM

]]> By: Rose http://especiallyheather.com/2007/08/18/sometimes/comment-page-1/#comment-17104 Rose Sun, 19 Aug 2007 21:17:35 +0000 http://www.especiallyheather.com/2007/08/18/sometimes/#comment-17104 Your blog is yours and your journey is yours and you are gracious enough to share it with me/others. The last thing I want to do is offer you platitudes as if I know how you feel or can understand what you are experiencing. But, I do care for you and my heart aches with you even though we have never met. Your blog is yours and your journey is yours and you are gracious enough to share it with me/others. The last thing I want to do is offer you platitudes as if I know how you feel or can understand what you are experiencing. But, I do care for you and my heart aches with you even though we have never met.

]]> By: Pamela http://especiallyheather.com/2007/08/18/sometimes/comment-page-1/#comment-17103 Pamela Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:48:37 +0000 http://www.especiallyheather.com/2007/08/18/sometimes/#comment-17103 love jaci V. We all can be only sympathetic... except those that have gone through cancer. But even then, each experience is unique. So glad your Father goes through it each day with you. Can you imagine how alone someone who doesn't look to HIM will be? love jaci V.

We all can be only sympathetic… except those that have gone through cancer. But even then, each experience is unique.

So glad your Father goes through it each day with you.
Can you imagine how alone someone who doesn’t look to HIM will be?

]]> By: Addie http://especiallyheather.com/2007/08/18/sometimes/comment-page-1/#comment-17101 Addie Sun, 19 Aug 2007 16:22:11 +0000 http://www.especiallyheather.com/2007/08/18/sometimes/#comment-17101 Dear Heather, your poem Sometimes, has moved me to tears. I am having severe emotional struggles and this poem has been such a direct instruction to me ... hope you don't mind, but I have have published on my blog too. What I am going through right now does not compare to your journey, and yet through all that you have been a continuous encouragment !!! God Bless you!! Dear Heather, your poem Sometimes, has moved me to tears. I am having severe emotional struggles and this poem has been such a direct instruction to me … hope you don’t mind, but I have have published on my blog too.

What I am going through right now does not compare to your journey, and yet through all that you have been a continuous encouragment !!! God Bless you!!

]]> By: Holly http://especiallyheather.com/2007/08/18/sometimes/comment-page-1/#comment-17100 Holly Sun, 19 Aug 2007 15:26:02 +0000 http://www.especiallyheather.com/2007/08/18/sometimes/#comment-17100 Heather, You are SO BEAUTIFUL bald--I'm serious! Yes, as life has taught me a variety of things I have learned to look people in the eyes and smile. When my best friend went through chemo for breast CA at 26 and went bald I learned to look past the (lack of) hair. When my nephew was born with Down Syndrome I learned to look at the parents of a child with disabilities and smile & encourage and ask how they were doing and to treat the child with the same attention I give all other children. Hang in there, girl! God's plan is working through you, even if you can't see it. Heather,
You are SO BEAUTIFUL bald–I’m serious! Yes, as life has taught me a variety of things I have learned to look people in the eyes and smile. When my best friend went through chemo for breast CA at 26 and went bald I learned to look past the (lack of) hair. When my nephew was born with Down Syndrome I learned to look at the parents of a child with disabilities and smile & encourage and ask how they were doing and to treat the child with the same attention I give all other children. Hang in there, girl! God’s plan is working through you, even if you can’t see it.

]]> By: A Place For Ministry Wives http://especiallyheather.com/2007/08/18/sometimes/comment-page-1/#comment-17099 A Place For Ministry Wives Sun, 19 Aug 2007 15:10:41 +0000 http://www.especiallyheather.com/2007/08/18/sometimes/#comment-17099 I love this....just love it. I love this….just love it.

]]> By: Beverly http://especiallyheather.com/2007/08/18/sometimes/comment-page-1/#comment-17098 Beverly Sun, 19 Aug 2007 14:34:09 +0000 http://www.especiallyheather.com/2007/08/18/sometimes/#comment-17098 Sometimes we heal stronger and better than we were before! Sometimes we heal stronger and better than we were before!

]]> By: Jenny http://especiallyheather.com/2007/08/18/sometimes/comment-page-1/#comment-17097 Jenny Sun, 19 Aug 2007 06:19:49 +0000 http://www.especiallyheather.com/2007/08/18/sometimes/#comment-17097 Heather, have you ever read "What Katy Did" by Susan Coolidge? There is a poem in it you may enjoy, so, if you don't mind, I'll write it here. IN SCHOOL I used to go to a bright school Where Youth and Frolic taught in turn; But idle schollar that I was, I liked to play, I would not learn; So the Great Teacher did ordain That I should try the School of Pain. One of the infant class I am With little, easy lessons, set In a great book; the higher class Have harder ones than I, and yet I find mine hard, and can't restrain My tears while studying thus with Pain. There are two Teachers in the school, One has a gentle voice and low, And smiles upon her scholars, as She passes softly to and fro. Her name is Love; 'tis very plain She shuns the sharper Teacher, Pain. Or so I sometimes think; and then, At other times, they meet and kiss, And look so strangely like, that I Am puzzled to tell how it is, Or whence the change which makes it vain To guess if it be- Love or Pain. They tell me if I study well, And learn my lessons, I shall be Moved upward to that higher class Where dear Love teaches constantly; And I work hard, in hopes to gain Reward, and get away from Pain. Yet Pain is sometimes kind, and helps Me on when I am very dull; I thank him often in my heart; But Love is far more beautiful; Under her tender, gentle reign I must learn faster than of Pain. So I will do my very best, Nor chide the clock, nor call it slow; That when the Teacher calls me up To see if I am fit to go, I may to Love's high class attain, And bid a sweet goodbye to Pain. ~Susan Coolidge~ Heather, have you ever read “What Katy Did” by Susan Coolidge? There is a poem in it you may enjoy, so, if you don’t mind, I’ll write it here.

IN SCHOOL

I used to go to a bright school
Where Youth and Frolic taught in turn;
But idle schollar that I was,
I liked to play, I would not learn;
So the Great Teacher did ordain
That I should try the School of Pain.

One of the infant class I am
With little, easy lessons, set
In a great book; the higher class
Have harder ones than I, and yet
I find mine hard, and can’t restrain
My tears while studying thus with Pain.

There are two Teachers in the school,
One has a gentle voice and low,
And smiles upon her scholars, as
She passes softly to and fro.
Her name is Love; ’tis very plain
She shuns the sharper Teacher, Pain.

Or so I sometimes think; and then,
At other times, they meet and kiss,
And look so strangely like, that I
Am puzzled to tell how it is,
Or whence the change which makes it vain
To guess if it be- Love or Pain.

They tell me if I study well,
And learn my lessons, I shall be
Moved upward to that higher class
Where dear Love teaches constantly;
And I work hard, in hopes to gain
Reward, and get away from Pain.

Yet Pain is sometimes kind, and helps
Me on when I am very dull;
I thank him often in my heart;
But Love is far more beautiful;
Under her tender, gentle reign
I must learn faster than of Pain.

So I will do my very best,
Nor chide the clock, nor call it slow;
That when the Teacher calls me up
To see if I am fit to go,
I may to Love’s high class attain,
And bid a sweet goodbye to Pain.
~Susan Coolidge~

]]> By: lisa http://especiallyheather.com/2007/08/18/sometimes/comment-page-1/#comment-17095 lisa Sun, 19 Aug 2007 03:37:03 +0000 http://www.especiallyheather.com/2007/08/18/sometimes/#comment-17095 Heather you never cease to amaze me. I read your posts everyday and you just continue to inspire me. I sit here and try to find words to bring you solace and comfort and instead I come away feeling humbled by your strength and your faith. I have struggled with my faith but your words, your conviction, well it renews my belief in a higher being. It reminds me that it is His will in the end and that I just have to trust and let go sometimes. You are an amazing woman and I just know that this experience, as horrible as it is, has touched the lives of so many people. Your post today was beautifully written. Thinking and praying for you. Heather you never cease to amaze me. I read your posts everyday and you just continue to inspire me. I sit here and try to find words to bring you solace and comfort and instead I come away feeling humbled by your strength and your faith. I have struggled with my faith but your words, your conviction, well it renews my belief in a higher being. It reminds me that it is His will in the end and that I just have to trust and let go sometimes. You are an amazing woman and I just know that this experience, as horrible as it is, has touched the lives of so many people. Your post today was beautifully written. Thinking and praying for you.

]]> By: Sallie http://especiallyheather.com/2007/08/18/sometimes/comment-page-1/#comment-17094 Sallie Sun, 19 Aug 2007 02:24:50 +0000 http://www.especiallyheather.com/2007/08/18/sometimes/#comment-17094 Heather -- I've been offline for a while but trying to keep up when I can and now I'm back online. I have to say the picture of you in the black and white scarf (or cap??) is so cute! I'm continuing to pray for you! Just remember 2 Corinthians 1: 3-5 and comfort other as Christ will comfort you :-) God bless.. Heather — I’ve been offline for a while but trying to keep up when I can and now I’m back online. I have to say the picture of you in the black and white scarf (or cap??) is so cute! I’m continuing to pray for you! Just remember 2 Corinthians 1: 3-5 and comfort other as Christ will comfort you :-)

God bless..

]]> By: Cathy http://especiallyheather.com/2007/08/18/sometimes/comment-page-1/#comment-17093 Cathy Sun, 19 Aug 2007 01:52:08 +0000 http://www.especiallyheather.com/2007/08/18/sometimes/#comment-17093 That is very nice, Heather. I'm sorry you felt hurt, and understandably so, when shopping. Maybe the Lord is giving you even another way to minister to others, with poetry. That is very nice, Heather. I’m sorry you felt hurt, and understandably so, when shopping.
Maybe the Lord is giving you even another way to minister to others, with poetry.

]]> By: Mommy, the Human Napkin http://especiallyheather.com/2007/08/18/sometimes/comment-page-1/#comment-17091 Mommy, the Human Napkin Sun, 19 Aug 2007 00:29:07 +0000 http://www.especiallyheather.com/2007/08/18/sometimes/#comment-17091 You have no idea how much this spoke to me... I needed this today. I found out I was expecting on July 4, only to miscarry a week ago. Your words really hit home with me, and really express what I've been feeling, too. Your courage and faith always inspire me, and for that, I thank you. I know that I can always come to your blog to be uplifted. You have no idea how much this spoke to me… I needed this today. I found out I was expecting on July 4, only to miscarry a week ago. Your words really hit home with me, and really express what I’ve been feeling, too.

Your courage and faith always inspire me, and for that, I thank you. I know that I can always come to your blog to be uplifted.

]]> By: peach http://especiallyheather.com/2007/08/18/sometimes/comment-page-1/#comment-17085 peach Sat, 18 Aug 2007 22:30:24 +0000 http://www.especiallyheather.com/2007/08/18/sometimes/#comment-17085 Sometimes . . . God just speaks so clearly through you that you make me shiver, Heather. Powerful words. Thanks for sharing the beauty that is on your heart and came out so eloquently in your poem. You are precious, and I am so glad to know you through this time. Sometimes . . . God just speaks so clearly through you that you make me shiver, Heather. Powerful words. Thanks for sharing the beauty that is on your heart and came out so eloquently in your poem. You are precious, and I am so glad to know you through this time.

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